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| Keep Reading → ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Will Biden sink the navy? Navy Faces Rough Waters Under Biden +++++++++++++++++++ This from Powerine. True equity is probably unobtainable but re-introducing a broader application of affirmative acton is both obtainable and discriminatory and in this case highly racial but this is what Obama sought and now can accomplish through Rice. DEEP MEANING OF EQUITY The execrable Susan Rice has returned to public life to lead the
White House Domestic Policy Council. It’s an anodyne title, but she has taken
up residence in the Executive Office of the President to execute, to crack the
whip, to impose discipline, to play the role of Krupskaya to Joe Biden’s
glassy-eyed Weekend at Bernie’s routine. Rice emerged on Tuesday to preview the strong dose of “equity”
that Biden was to promote later that day. What does “equity” mean? Rice used
the word over and over again without explanation (video below). “Equity” is not equality (i.e., equal rights). It is a
substitute for equal rights. “Equity” requires the authorities to determine who
gets what according to the race, the ethnicity, or other status of the
beneficiaries. It is updated Marxist claptrap in which race replace class. Michael Barone takes up the deep meaning of “equity” in his
Washington Examiner column “Biden’s United States of Racial Quotas and Preferences.” Barone
counts Rice’s use of the term 19 times in her remarks and explicates it: [F]or Rice and Biden, “equity” requires not equality of
opportunity, but equality of results. That’s one of the fundamental tenets of
the critical race theory training that Trump’s administration banned and
Biden’s reinstated on Day One. A lower-than-population percentage of blacks in any desirable
category, explains critical race theorist Ibram X. Kendi, must be the result of
“systemic racism,” a term Rice used twice and Biden five times on Tuesday. If
you don’t agree, you’re guilty of “white fragility” and must be a “white
supremacist.” As Andrew Sullivan trenchantly observes, “to achieve ‘equity,’
you first have to take away equality for individuals who were born in the wrong
identity group. Equity means treating individuals unequally so that groups are
equal.” This is exactly contrary to the central thrust of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964. It could easily be judged, in particular cases, to violate
the 14th Amendment. Individuals discriminated against might have standing to go
to court. And there will surely be many such individuals. Rice made clear
that the policies mentioned Tuesday are just a start. “Every agency,” she said,
with no suggestion of exceptions, “will place equity at the core of their
public engagement, their policy design, and program delivery to ensure that
government resources are reaching Americans of color and all marginalized
communities — rural, urban, disabled, LGBTQ+, religious minorities, and so many
others.” That’s a lot of preferred categories, but one
suspects that, as in Orwell’s Animal Farm, some preferred groups
will be more preferred than others. What we’re being promised is racial quotas
and preferences in every conceivable program, in every possible corner of
public life. Equal rights are the ground of our freedom. “Equity” is
something else entirely. Posited as a goal, it is a rationale for unequal
treatment. Never to be achieved, it remains permanently on the horizon. In Democracy in America, Tocqueville observes
(Volume Two, Part Two, Chapter 13) that the mania for perfect equality in
conditions (“equity”) is at war with human nature: [M]en will never found an equality that is enough for them.
Whatever a people’s effort, it will not succeed in making conditions perfectly
equal within itself; and if it had the misfortune to reach this absolute and
complete leveling, the inequality of intellects would still remain, which
coming directly from God, will always escape the laws. However democratic the social state and political constitution
of a people may be, one can therefore count on the fact that each of its
citizens will always perceive near to him several positions in which he is dominated,
and one can foresee that he will obstinately keep looking at this side alone.
When inequality is the common law of a society, the strongest inequalities do
not strike the eye; when everything is nearly on a level, the least of them
wound it. That is why the desire for equality always becomes more insatiable as
equality is greater. The mania for perfect equality of results and conditions is
never to be satisfied. It provides a permanent rationale for perfect tyranny. | ||
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